William Butler Yeats
About William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin. His father was a lawyer turned Pre-Raphaelite painter. In 1867 the family followed him to London and settled in Bedford Park. In 1881 they returned to Dublin, where Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art.
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The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
The Song Of The Old Mother
The Lake of Innisfree
When you are old
The Fiddler Of Dooney
News From The Delphic Oracle
Yeats On "The Lake Isle Of Innisfree"
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Modern Poetry
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Down By The Salley Gardens
Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats on The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W B Yeats Reads His Poem the Song of the Old Mother (1934)
The Second Coming
Yeats - Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Read by ADD
The Mother of God
The Song of Wandering Aengus - Read by apc
The Song of the Old Mother and The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A Drinking Song
W B Yeats Reads His Poem the Lake Isle of Innisfree (1937)
W B Yeats Reads and Discusses Poetry by Ts Eliot, Paul Fort and Cecil Day Lewis (1936)
Where My Books Go
The Song of the Old Mother and Introduction to a Faery Song
W.B. Yeats: Poems (Unabridged)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland 01-13
W B Yeats Commentary and Tarantella, The Rolling English Road, Off the Ground, The Sailor and the Lady and the Shark
The Song of Wandering Aengus - Read by CB
The Pretty Maid (Paul Fort), Preludes [T.S. Eliot] and Two Songs, No. 1 [Cecil Day Lewis]
Down by the Sally Gardens
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Stolen Child
Sailing to Byzantium
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Read by APC
The Lake Isle of Innisfree and the Fiddler of Dooney
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Read by JSB
W B Yeats's Introduction (My Own Poetry)
The Song of Wandering Aengus - Read by Chip
Death By William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Read by LD
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Read by EZWA
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
A Crazed Girl
Readings from the Lake Isle of Innisfree and Coole and Ballylee
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